Specialist Practitioner School Nursing

The Methodist Church in Britain; Swindon; Vor Ort; GBP 45.000 - 65.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust seeks a specialist practitioner to lead the Healthy Child Programme for ages 5–19 within the 0-19 public health team. You will provide expert clinical guidance, supervise students and practitioners, and work with schools and partners to meet safeguarding and health improvement goals.

The role requires a school nursing specialist registration and involves line management, mentoring, and delivering person-centred care with focus on safety and

Qualifikationen

• Specialist school nursing qualification and registration.
• Experience as a specialist in public health nursing.
• Recent experience in a comparable role.
• Experience of managing change and leading teams.
• Proven ability to develop specialist care programmes.
• Experience of clinical supervision and mentoring.

Aufgaben

• Lead and deliver the Healthy Child Programme for children aged 5 to 19 and their families.
• Collaborate with pan-Dorset 0-19 teams on ChatHealth, safeguarding and support requests.
• Promote health and wellbeing of the 5 to 19 population and families.
• Provide specialist clinical guidance on patient care and service users.
• Devise specialist care programmes for the 0-19 team and colleagues.
• Plan, implement and review health improvement programmes across settings.
• Work with partners to meet standards and statutory requirements.
• Provide line management and supervision to the 0-19 team and supervise students/practitioners.
• Deliver person-centred care prioritising safety, privacy and dignity.

Kenntnisse

Clinical reasoning

Workload planning

Trust strategy knowledge

Effective communication

Barrier understanding

Ausbildung

School nursing qualification

Jobbeschreibung

This specialist practitioner post sits in the children and young people public health service within Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust, covering the 0-19 team. The work centres on delivering the Healthy Child Programme for children aged 5 to 19 and their families, alongside the ChatHealth texting service, safeguarding and requests for support from schools and partners. The post also carries line management of the 0-19 team and supervision of students and practitioners. Applicants need a school nursing specialist community public health registration, and those who require Skilled Worker sponsorship are ineligible.

What the job involves

• Lead and deliver the Healthy Child Programme and targeted interventions for children aged 5 to 19 and their families
• Work with the pan-Dorset 0-19 public health teams to respond to identified needs, including ChatHealth, safeguarding and School Nursing Requests for Support
• Promote the health and wellbeing of the 5 to 19 population and their families
• Provide specialist advice on the management and care of patients and service users
• Devise specialist programmes of care for the 0-19 team and other professionals, and make sure they are delivered appropriately
• Plan, implement and review health improvement programmes across a range of settings, in line with national and local public health agendas
• Work in partnership with other agencies to meet agreed standards, objectives and statutory requirements
• Provide line management and leadership to the 0-19 team
• Provide supervision, mentorship, training and clinical support to students and trained practitioners
• Deliver person-centred care that always considers people's safety, privacy and dignity

What’s required

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma level school nursing qualification

Registration & licences

• Registration as a specialist community public health practitioner (school nursing)
• Membership of the relevant professional body

Experience

• Specialist working experience
• Recent experience in a comparable role
• Experience of managing change
• Experience of developing specialist programmes of care and giving highly specialist advice
• Experience of clinical supervision and mentoring of junior staff
• Experience of leading and managing a team

Skills & knowledge

• Specialist clinical reasoning to make clinical judgements on diagnosis and intervention
• Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
• Knowledge of Trust strategy relevant to the role
• Communicating effectively at all levels on complex, sensitive or contentious information, using negotiating or persuasive skills
• Overcoming barriers to understanding where people have physical or mental disabilities

Other

• Evidence of recent professional development in an up-to-date portfolio
• Evidence of demonstrating the Trust's values and behaviours

Nice to have

• Learning and Assessing in Practice qualification or equivalent practice assessor training
• Experience of devising and delivering training